Sentences with phrase «as auspicious»

Rarely has the confluence of opinion and art been as auspicious: McNeil's tenacious drive only gained in sureness and coherence.

Eyeing its goal of reaching every disadvantaged mother, WTE selected May 12th (Mother's Day) as an auspicious date for fund - raising through a stellar benefit auction at Sean Kelly Gallery.

As in the best collections, the stories enhance each other, forging connections between recurrent characters and building a world where real locations like Islamabad and Lahore blend with imagined households... Themes of struggle and progress may be familiar, but Mueenuddin's rich stories make them fresh and powerful, marking a debut as auspicious as any so far this year.

The results are not nearly as auspicious as that other film, but Bernal and Luna are so good together that they carry the day anyway.

What's shaping up as an auspicious Black History Month for movies — multiple Oscar contenders in multiple categories — continues this week with the release of Get Out, a movie that makes history.

Red is referred to as a auspicious color and for Levi's, it represents energy...

It was about as auspicious a start a driver could have Sunday at Auto Club Speedway.

Some 200 couples gathered at the temple to attend a grand colorful wedding ceremony on December 12, 2012, which many in Asia mark as an auspicious date on the calendar.

India's upcoming five - day Diwali festival, seen as an auspicious period for gold buying, will boost physical demand in coming weeks, says Su

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It may seem auspicious, coming as it does while the federal government ponders approval of China National Offshore Oil Co.'s $ 15 - billion purchase of Calgary - based Nexen, but the new investment agreement with China that is soon to be ratified in Parliament was actually 18 years in the making.

As a leader you set a standard of excellence under the auspicious belief that flawless execution — all the time at all cost — is the only path toward success.

As I've explained numerous times before, it's considered auspicious to give gifts of gold bullion and jewelry during the Hindu Festival of Lights, and in years past we've seen some price appreciation in the days and weeks leading up to the celebration.

In 595, John had assumed the auspicious title of Universal Bishop, which Gregory thought to be self - serving and regrettable.8 In order to demonstrate his own response Gregory publicly defined the role of the Roman bishop as the servant of the servants of God (servus servorum domini), a term that thereafter was used to describe the heart of papal authority and one which has been thereafter always associated with the Gregorian political imagination.

Instead, I'll make a cheap joke about how it sure looks like Rick Warren was present at McKinley's inauguration as well as Obama's (compare this photo with this one) and note a less auspicious historical resonance that has nothing to do with church history but will be irresistible to you history nuts.

Keen, who has been referred to as «the godfather of Texas Music» (a title that arguably could be shared with such other singing / songwriting Texans as Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, and Jerry Jeff Walker), is enjoying an auspicious 2009.

On this auspicious evening every year just as dusk turns to dark in one of our central city streets, a row of houses light up with the spirit of Christmas.

Owens, who learned his coaching as an assistant under Bear Bryant for six years, did not have a very auspicious beginning when he took over from Darrell Royal, an old Oklahoma teammate, in 1957.

Parking near the front as soon as the park opened was an auspicious start to the day.

Muslims across the world celebrated the auspicious day also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, on Monday, September 12 — one of the holiest celebrations on the Islamic calendar.

This time is auspicious for us as a people to learn from the nations that have passed through this part as the masses are expecting from this administration not just stamping out corruption but a total creation of a sustainable socio - economic prosperity.

«As we celebrate this auspicious occasion, let us renew our faith in our nation and implore the Almighty God to restore to us those values that place high premium on human life, love of neighbour and sharing even as we ventilate our faith in the unity of our dear country»As we celebrate this auspicious occasion, let us renew our faith in our nation and implore the Almighty God to restore to us those values that place high premium on human life, love of neighbour and sharing even as we ventilate our faith in the unity of our dear country»as we ventilate our faith in the unity of our dear country».

«In what I don't take as a particularly auspicious sign for the day, Mr. Speaker, because we don't have a significant number of members of the mental health committee, we're going to postpone that, and instead ask for member of the veterans committee,» Morelle said.

@mbomb007 Your prisons are overflowing because for - profit prisons mean they have an incentive to keep prisons as full as possible, even if it means lobbying for heavier criminal penalties even for minor offenses (usually under such auspicious euphemisms as «tough on crime», «law and order»).

Given these auspicious early results, the team is already laying the groundwork for a clinical trial to test RCGD 423 or a similar molecule as a treatment for osteoarthritis or juvenile arthritis.

They help send energy to the thigh muscles, and they shut down nonessentials, such as growth or reproduction, that can wait for more auspicious times.

While insect herbivores constantly need leaves to survive, plants can remain dormant as seeds in the ground until more auspicious circumstances occur.

The results were even more auspicious when the investigators stratified vaccinated subjects by antibody responder status: subjects who successfully mounted an immunological response to the vaccine enjoyed statistically significant benefits as measured with the IGA, the two motor function subscales of the MDS - UPDRS, and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ - 39) of quality of life (though not on the PD Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire (NMS - Quest / PD - NMS)-RRB-, while no benefit was observed in nonresponders on any scale (Table 1).

This Wednesday, April 11, cosmic lovebirds Venus and Mars dance a sultry samba as they flow into a sensual trine — an auspicious 120 - degree angle that gets everything moving just a little bit faster.

Three is the number of new beginnings, but nine is even more auspicious as it's a number of great transition in feng shui.

This is a very auspicious time as it is a Blue Moon and a Total Lunar Eclipse!

The moment of full moon is an auspicious time to pay homage to the Divine Feminine, as it's the time the feminine energy of the earth is at it's fullest.

Going by your rules might not work because black and blue suits are regarded as funeral colors and would not be auspicious for wedding attire.

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

«The industry is bracing for the record - setting debut of the highly anticipated «Avengers: Infinity War» that is expected to break through the $ 200 million opening weekend sound barrier as the summer movie season of 2018 gets off to an early and auspicious start,» mentioned comScore field place of business analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

The fact that 2K Sports is referring to the Switch version of its basketball game as NBA 2K18 — as opposed to, say, NBA 2K Switch, or something else that doesn't follow the series» naming convention — is auspicious.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Punch - Drunk Love makes a rather auspicious Blu - ray debut as part of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Humorous reinterpretations of Shakespeare (as well as original screenplays) proved to be auspicious for Stoppard once again, when the costume comedy Shakespeare In Love (1998), about a blocked Will Shakespeare and his Juliet-esque inspiration, earned Stoppard and Marc Norman the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

For Dell (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum), a meeting in line for comet - watching at an LA cemetery (yes, really) might just turn out to be fate as we experience the relationship's less - than - auspicious beginning, middle and possible end — although you'll end up with a migraine if you try and piece any of this timeline together thanks to parallel universes, jarring time - travel sequences and a distinct lack of logical structure offered by Comet.

Ignoring the 20 years that have elapsed since the tragic passing of N.W.A founder Eazy - E the occasion might not seem auspicious, but for anyone who has been keeping track they would hardly describe the film's release as straight out of nowhere.

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.

These postmodernist tomes proved auspicious and acclaimed, and, as David Cronenberg would discover with his 1996 adaptation of Crash, despite what backseat drivers said, filmable after all....

Taylor - Joy and Cooke are both marvelous in entirely different registers, and Finley distinguishes his auspicious debut with craftsmanship as razor - sharp as the dialogue.

One of American cinema's finest character actors, Dern, whose career took off in the Seventies, proved too eccentric, too unconventional to work as a mainstream leading man in commercial fare, but here he's wonderfully worthy of this auspicious lineage.

Released theatrically under its original title «Auggie Rose,» «Beyond Suspicion» marks an auspicious debut for director Matthew Tabak, who has created a fascinating character study disguised as film noir.

The film won the auspicious Sloan Award at the Hamptons Film Festival where Abel was also recognized for his performance by being selected as a «Rising Star» where he was among only 6 international actors and actresses chosen.

Automobiles of the World — The regular extract from «Automobiles of the World» / Sunbeams at Le Mans — Anthony Heal recalls the auspicious occasion / The Whitlock's Story — The editor tries out what is thought to be the only surviving Whitlock / The flight of the Phoenix — The history of the Phoenix by Michael Worthington - Williams / Brighton Run — Preview As usual this proves to be a truly international event Michael Worthington - Williams reports / The Morris «Series M» — Unitary construction and one of the most sophisticated leaf - spring suspension designs seen / Ardingly 1985 — The Ardingly show report / 1911 Standard 20hp Laundaulette — The ex-Sword Collection 1911 standard 20hp laundaulette by Finbarr Corry.

After the handful of GTO homologation specials (racers disguised as road cars), the California Spider is the most auspicious child in the Ferrari 250 family.

A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, as well as historical fiction, a children's entry, serial work and noir.